Jay Allred is the President of Richland Source and a founding board member of Idea Works. The Richland Source newsroom reports on a four county area with a focus on Solutions Journalism, which looks beyond reporting on problems, and examines how similar communities are successfully addressing issues and how their methods can apply locally. 

Dora Anim, Chief Operating Officer at Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is responsible for assisting the CEO in providing leadership and vision for GCF. Her day to day management efforts ensure that GCF effectively accomplishes its mission and develops a high performing work culture. She is also responsible for ensuring the organization has the proper operational controls, reporting procedures and systems in place to grow and promote operational efficiency. Dora is a talented facilitator, coach, avid learner and cultivator of diverse talent. She previously worked at the Health Collaborative where programs under her leadership included care transitions, advanced care planning, disaster preparedness, patient safety and quality improvement, health care quality transparency, consumer engagement, business intelligence and coordination of regional Epic users groups.

Dora currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Springer School and Center, the Council on Aging, Episcopal Retirement Services Board and the WE (Women’s Excel) Executive Advisory Board for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. She has a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Cincinnati.

As CEO, chief ambassador and lead disruptor, Eric directs People’s Liberty’s vision and mission while overseeing investments throughout the urban core. Eric serves as Vice President and Senior Program Officer for the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.

Dianne Chipps Bailey is a managing director and the national practice executive for the National Consulting and Advisory Practice, Nonprofit Consulting Services team at U.S. Trust. In this role, Dianne and her team deliver customized consulting and advisory services to U.S. Trust institutional nonprofit clients' boards of directors, investment committees and senior professional leaders. Her team’s areas of focus include strategic visioning, mission advancement, risk management, nonprofit governance and board dynamics. Previously as an attorney, Dianne’s practice was dedicated to the representation of tax-exempt organizations, their senior management and volunteer leaders. Dianne has more than 20 years of experience working with nonprofits.

An evangelist for women's philanthropy, she is a founding member and past president of Women's Impact Fund and currently serves as vice chair of the Women's Philanthropy Institute national council. Her professional recognition includes a Charlotte Business Journal Women in Business Achievement Award and the Leadership Charlotte Circle of Excellence Award. Dianne was named The Mecklenburg Times 2015 Woman of the Year. Dianne graduated, with high honors, from the University of California at Berkeley and, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.

Biff has 20 years of investment experience and 7 years of experience in the health care services industry. He is a graduate of The College of William and Mary (BA) and Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University (MBA). Biff is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hattie Larlham Foundation and Chair of the Investment Committee.

Deanna Bass is the Executive Director of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Procter & Gamble. She is a speaker, writer, advocate and diversity champion with more than 25 years of experience as a human resources executive. She is a chief architect of P&G’s Global Gender Equality strategy and co-creator of the “Women at Work: Myth vs Reality” campaign which launched in Davos in 2018. As part of her work in gender equality, Deanna sponsored a multi-year partnership with Catalyst, Inc bringing their Men Advocating Real Change initiative into the portfolio of P&G’s leadership development curriculum. She also authored P&G’s Equality Based Policy initiative which focused on global paid parental leave, pay equality, expanded flexibility, and disability inclusion.

Deanna has extensive experience in Organization Design, Organization Transition & Transformation, Strategic HR Partnerships, Talent Management, Executive Coaching, and Change Management & Divestitures on behalf of multi-billion dollar brands.

Deanna is the past Vice President of Hope Springs Institute Board of Directors and currently sits on the Board of All In Together, a collaboration-driven campaign to empower and inspire American Women to drive meaningful change in their communities. She also serves on Working Mother’s Multicultural Women and Work Beyond Summit Advisory Board. She is the recipient of the 2018 Ted Childs Life Work Excellence Award for her work in advancing culture, dependent care, flexible work, and parental leave policies.

A Midwest native, Deanna has lived and worked across the U.S. and the globe. She currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Susan Beaudry joined the staff of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations in 2014 and currently serves as Vice President. In this position, Susan is responsible for developing and implementing grantmaking strategies related to the Foundations’ funding priorities; managing funding partnerships and collaborations; providing oversight to the grants management process; and developing and executing the Foundations’ communications strategy.

Prior to joining OHF, Susan served in leadership roles for several philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, including Thousand Currents (IDEX), Common Counsel Foundation, LaFetra Foundation, Grantmakers Without Borders and Philanthropy Ohio. Susan also managed her own consulting firm, SB Associates, providing program development, management, research, strategic planning and board development services. Susan received her bachelor’s degree in Meaning, Culture and Change, with an emphasis in International Development, from World College West. She also attended Nanjing Teacher’s College in the People’s Republic of China, studying Mandarin and Chinese culture.

Rumor has it that Jay Becker graduated from Xavier University, School of Business Administration with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance. There are confirmed sightings of him on the floor trading and managing portfolios over an 18 year period at the Chicago Board of Trade. He admits to playing the role of an investment banker, thoroughbred horse breeder, log cabin reclamator, and software company partner. He never had any fun until his world changed upon cofounding BLDG, bridging his diverse business background with unmatched creativity. Jay is a high energy out-of-the-box thinker who overflows with ideas to make businesses better.

Fundraising Consultant J.D. Beiting joined Benefactor Group with over fifteen years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, operations, and management. J.D. brings unique experience in developing creative and collaborative approaches to help nonprofit organizations build successful peer-to-peer fundraising, with applications to broad-base solicitation, member acquisition, and recurring gift programs. He also has experience in working with corporate, foundation, and government funders on a national, state, and local scale, as well as cause marketing, foundation relations, special event and annual giving campaigns.

J.D. has held senior leadership positions with Action for Healthy Kids, a national group addressing childhood obesity, as Director of Planning and Development. On a state level, he was Director of Strategic Alliances at Children’s Hunger Alliance. Locally, he serves on boards at the ROY G BIV gallery and the United Way of Central Ohio. Also, he brings corporate experience from Price Waterhouse Coopers and the Southland Corporation. J.D. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Clare Zlatic Blankemeyer is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at The Mayerson Foundation and serves as the President of Impact 100; a women's collective giving organization that started in the tristate region and has grown to over 65 communities across the globe. She’s a graduate of the University of Dayton and serves on the Advisory Committee of GreenLight Fund and Rotary’s Jefferson Award Committee. Clare was a member of C-Change, Class 8 and was named one of Cincinnati’s Forty Under 40 by the Business Courier, Emerging Philanthropist by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation & LEGACY, and as a YWCA Rising Star in 2014.

As the President and CEO of the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, Cara Dingus Brook has served the foundation and its donors by creating exciting new opportunities for the Foundation’s mission. Hallmarks of her leadership include helping the Foundation develop and launch the world’s first nonprofit “IPO” – an Initial Philanthropic Offering; supporting ten local communities in the establishment of their own local foundations; incubating a regional economic development organization and galvanizing a number of public-private partnerships to improve quality of life for the region’s citizens.  

During Cara’s tenure, the Foundation’s annual grantmaking has increased sixteen-fold, and the Foundation’s assets have grown from $5 million to more than $36 million, with an additional $40 million in documented planned gift receivables. Throughout this entrepreneurial journey, FAO has worked with great intention to encourage a culture of high expectations, most notably with its award-winning I’m a Child of Appalachia ® campaign. 

Prior to her current position, Cara served as the Southeast Ohio District Representative for United States Senator George V. Voinovich and as the manager of a multi-sector partnership to promote philanthropy as a community and economic development tool. She began her career an intern for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and Philanthropy Ohio (it was then called Ohio Grantmakers Forum).

Cara received a master’s degree in public administration (MPA) and a bachelor’s degree in English from Ohio University. She is a graduate of the Jo Ann Davidson Leadership Institute and has studied with the Center for Creative Leadership.  She resides in Logan, Ohio, with her husband, Dominick, and their two-year old son, Hugh. They are members of First Presbyterian Church. Cara enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking, biking and traveling.

Harold Brown currently serves as Vice President of Community Strategies at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF). In this role, Harold provides executive leadership and vision for GCF’s comprehensive array of grantmaking programs, including developing an in-depth strategy to advance its community leadership work. In addition, he partners with GCF donors to help fulfill their philanthropic goals by ensuring they are aware of our region’s greatest needs and opportunities.

For 16+ years prior to joining GCF, Harold Brown served in a variety of leadership roles at KnowledgeWorks. In his most recent role of Senior Officer for the Advancement of Underserved Learners, Harold explored and developed opportunities for KnowledgeWorks to invest and partner in initiatives designed to dramatically improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged youth. His most recent initiative was a statewide effort to dismantle the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline” and support quality educational options for youth who have not succeeded in traditional schools or who may be reentering their communities following incarceration.

An Oxford, Ohio native and graduate of Harvard University, Harold began his career as a Senior Researcher at WGBH Boston and also directed Multicultural Enrollment Services at Miami University.  Harold serves or has recently served on a number of national and local boards, including the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, GreenLight Cincinnati Advisory Board, National College Access Network Board, AchievePoint Career Academies, and the Cincinnati Police Chief’s Community Advisory Board.

Jessie Cannon currently serves as the vice president for community relations at Cardinal Health. In this role, she leads enterprise-wide Cardinal Health community relations efforts including corporate and foundation-funded initiatives and employee engagement activities. Ms. Cannon also oversees Cardinal Health’s Opioid Action Program, a multi-pronged approach aimed at helping to solve the opioid crisis and fight prescription drug misuse.

Ms. Cannon has more than 20 years of public policy experience. Prior to her work at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, she served as a consultant to the Ohio Business Roundtable on the development of early childhood education policy and directed a national collaborative of children’s hospitals focused on harm reduction in pediatric institutions across the country. Ms. Cannon has also consulted with state government clients on state budgeting and fiscal issues and assisted the Ohio State Medical Association and its members in the development of a health care reform agenda. 

Ms. Cannon earned a B.S. in mathematics from Ohio University in 1993. She currently resides in Upper Arlington with her husband and two sons.

Carol Cantwell is the founder and Chief Fun Officer of Fun with Financials, a consulting practice dedicated to building the financial health of the social justice sector. Fun with Financials’ mission is to demystify financial information so that it can be used to make informed decisions. Carol is also a consultant with RoadMap, a national team of capacity builders dedicated to advancing the power and promise of social justice organizations.

In her work with social justice nonprofits, Carol helps to build strong financial systems that can be maintained over time. She teaches board members, staff, and leaders to read and understand financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and budget) and uses the organizations’ own reports to analyze current financial health. She assists organizations in creating financial policies to guide budgeting decisions as well as clarifying roles in the budget process.

In her work with foundation boards and staff, Carol emphasizes the responsibility that funders have to understand the entire context of grantee financial information. Carol teaches funders how to read and understand the financial statements currently requested using examples from recent dockets. Carol advocates that funders stop asking for budgets and instead focus on actual financial information that grantees already have available and aligns with grantee financial health. Carol is the co-author, along with Molly Shultz Hafid, of “In Other Words, the Budgets Are Fake: Why One Funder Eliminated Grantee Budgets to Improve Financial Due Diligence” which appeared in the October 2014 issue of The Foundation Review.

Prior to launching Fun with Financials in 2004, Carol spent almost 12 years in various nonprofit

financial roles from Office Manager to Chief Financial Officer to Co-Executive Director. In addition to her professional experience, Carol brings a degree in economics to this work as well as her sense of humor and ability to make financials fun!

Carol is a life-long baseball fan and a slow and steady marathon runner who grew up in Boston and lives in San Francisco.

Emily is an experienced facilitator and coach with a passion for helping nonprofits build strong relationships and stakeholder engagement that lead to successful missions.

Before coming to ASP, Emily worked in human resources for one of the nation’s largest providers of skilled nursing services. There, while managing employee retention and leadership programs, she developed an understanding of the psychological side of business – how to marry employees’ interests with best practices and leadership skills to further an organization’s mission.

Today her clients have the benefit of this perspective, and she relishes the opportunity to help them become the best versions of themselves.

Emily is a graduate of the University of Toledo and serves on the board of the Ballet Theatre of Toledo. She also teaches ballet and volunteers as a running buddy for Girls on the Run.

Kathleen Lis Dean, Ph.D. is the Senior Director of Evaluation, Outcomes, and Learning at the Saint Luke’s Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. In this role, she works with Foundation staff and grantees to use evaluation and outcomes for organizational learning in support of the mission to close the health equity gap. Kathleen also serves as a mentor for the Higher Learning Commission’s Assessment Academy, providing guidance for colleges and universities working to build their capacity for student learning assessment. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as an organizational development consultant with ModernThink, in institutional effectiveness roles at John Carroll University and the University of Maryland, and as a career development professional at Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford Colleges. Kathleen earned a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Maryland, and is a graduate of the University of Delaware earning a B.A. in International Relations and a Master of Education.

John Dedrick is executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Kettering Foundation. He has a longstanding research interest in the theory and practice of democracy and has worked closely with higher education professionals and community-based forum moderators on numerous scholarly and community-based research studies.

Dedrick has written on deliberative politics in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Gastil and Levine, eds., Jossey-Bass, 2005), The Journal of General Education, and Deliberation and the Work of Higher Education: Innovations for the Classroom, the Campus, and the Community (Dedrick et al., eds., Kettering Foundation Press, 2008).

Dedrick is former board president of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement. He serves on the executive committee of Deliberative Democracy Consortium, the public policy committee of Philanthropy Ohio, and the editorial board of the Journal of Public Deliberation. He is also a Faculty Fellow at Fielding Graduate University, where he leads seminars on topics including deliberation, dialogue, and civic engagement.

Dedrick received a BA and MA from the College of William and Mary and an MA and PhD in political science from Rutgers University.

Amy Dell joined the Licking County Foundation in December 2015 as the Program Officer. She is responsible for the creation, oversight and management of external programs, including grants, scholarships and special community initiatives. Her role allows her a view of the enormous generosity present in Licking County, and she considers it a privilege to help award these funds.  Prior to joining the Foundation, Amy worked for fifteen years with Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies in Ohio, and ten prior years with youth service organizations and schools in Vermont. Amy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Administration and Management, and a Master’s degree of Education.

Amy lives in Granville and is the proud mom of two daughters, Cecilia and Maggie Reinhardt.  In her community, Amy currently serves as a trustee for the Granville Education Foundation and coordinates childcare volunteers for her church. She enjoys spending time with family, exercising with friends, volunteering with her kids’ activities, working the crossword puzzle, singing along with all types of music, and being in the great outdoors. 

Terri Bradford Eason manages the Cleveland Foundation’s Gift Planning Program as a member of the Advancement team. Her primary focus is cultivating relationships that help individuals establish current and deferred philanthropic funds, legacy gifts and charitable giving strategic plans. As such, Terri works closely with professional advisors and their clients to identify, create and provide charitable planning options tailored to achieve specific philanthropic goals.

Terri joined the foundation in October 2008 after gaining two decades of experience in the financial services industry. She had several positions with National City (now PNC) and supported several functions including wealth management, relationship management, new business development and both private and corporate banking. She received the company’s NCC Excel Award for extraordinary client and community service, was the recipient of the YWCA Women of Professional Excellence Award, TLOD Status of Women Award, and the NCNW Phenomenal Women of Extraordinary Leadership and Service Award.

In addition, Terri has served the nonprofit community as a director on several area nonprofit boards.

Dave advises business clients on their federal, state, and local tax needs. Dave is particularly familiar with state and local taxation and tax controversy (including audits and litigation) due in large part to his experience as an Assistant Ohio Attorney General. In that role, Dave defended the Ohio Tax Commissioner in all phases of tax litigation before the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals and Ohio courts of appeal including the Ohio Supreme Court.  In addition to state and federal tax controversy, Dave also advises clients on state and federal tax issues that arise in connection with business transactions including entity formations, sales, mergers, restructurings, and dissolutions.

Dave is a frequent presenter and published author on state and federal tax issues. Dave regularly presents at the annual Ohio Tax Conference, which is the largest business tax conference in the nation.  Dave also presented recent developments regarding state taxation of internet retailers at the 2017 Council on State Taxation Sales Tax Conference.  Dave’s presentations on federal taxation include McDonald Hopkins’ Business Hours on federal tax reform and multiple presentations to the Ohio Society of CPAs regarding new federal partnership audit rules.

Dave earned a J.D., cum laude, from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2011. He received a B.S.B.A., magna cum laude, in accounting and finance from the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business in 2008.

John Evans, Director, joined Clearstead as an institutional consultant in 2017. John leads Clearstead’s Prism Outsourced CIO (OCIO) platform and co-leads the Responsible Investing platform. As a Director, John advises institutional clients on investment policy, strategic and tactical asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction. John’s clients include endowments, foundations, non-profits, hospitals, and defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Prior to joining Clearstead, John spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he was most recently a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for foundation and endowment clients across the U.S. John graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Board of Drink Local Drink Tap, a Cleveland and Uganda-based non-profit dedicated to access to clean water and sanitation. John is a 2019 CFA Level II Candidate.

When Zach joined the BLDG design team 6 years back, his BFA in Graphic Design from Northern Kentucky University was still hot off the press. Immediately, he hit the ground running, producing work for VisitLEX, Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and Mellow Mushroom. He’s also developed some killer visual identities for Legacy Financial, HGC and The Ruler. Zach likes to create with an open mind, and is comfortable in a wide range of graphic styles and flavors. Zach believes his duty as a designer is to shape the visual world that surrounds us in a bright, uplifting, uncommon but beautiful way. He is also in a band called Automagik. And he plays lead guitar. And he sings vocals.

Megan Folkerth coordinates Interact for Health’s efforts to reduce tobacco use with a strong focus on tobacco control policy. Megan oversees grant making and technical assistance, including designing and implementing new initiatives with community partners to decrease the health effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.

In 2013 Megan received the Legacy Next Generation Leader Award for Community and Social Services and in 2012 she was a Balderson Leadership Project Award Runner-Up. Megan holds a Master of Public Health in health promotion and education from Wright State University and a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Marietta College. She also earned a certificate of public health leadership from the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. Megan is a Certified Health Education Specialist and a member of the Ohio Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education.

Megan represents Interact for Health on the Cradle Cincinnati Advisory Board and serves as an advisor to the Tri-State Trails Executive Committee.

Outside of work, Megan enjoys running and spending time with family. She is an active core volunteer with the Cincinnati affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and combines her passion for running and health by being a committee member and volunteer with Girls on the Run of Greater Cincinnati.

Mary Francis is Interact for Health’s senior program officer for initiatives in community-led grantmaking. She works closely with staff members, other funders and community stakeholders to implement research informed practices that improve the health of communities.

Before coming to Interact for Health, Mary was the Director of Prevention at the Addiction Services Council and led a five-agency collaborative.

Mary holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from The Union Institute and master’s degree in adult education from the University of Phoenix.

Adam Gelter joined the 3CDC team as an intern in 2005. He later assumed the position of Development Manager, and in 2011 was promoted to Executive Vice President of Development.  In his current role, Gelter leads the development team with the main priority of developing strategies and implementation plans for underutilized real estate within Cincinnati’s center city.  Gelter plays an important role in all of 3CDC’s endeavors.

Most recently, Gelter oversaw his team through the renovation of two of Cincinnati’s most historic arts venues – the $11.2 million renovation of Memorial Hall, and the $143 million renovation of Music Hall. Both spaces, which had become somewhat rundown and outdated, were re-opened to the public, and have returned to fully-functional performance and events venues with modernized amenities and functional upgrades throughout. Additionally, Gelter led the development team in the $31.9 million restoration of Ziegler Park – a 4.5-acre greenspace located between the neighborhoods of Over-the-Rhine and Pendleton.

Prior to joining the 3CDC team, Mr. Gelter received his Bachelor of Science in Community Development from Vanderbilt University and Master of Community Planning with an Economic Development concentration from the University of Cincinnati.

Alison Goebel is Executive Director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC). She has been with GOPC since 2010 and has held a number of positions within the organization during that time. Today, Goebel is responsible for charting GOPC's strategic direction, directing the research, advocacy, and outreach teams, and securing resources for this work. She is the author of a number of research reports and policy briefs related to the revitalization of weak-market, legacy cities, transportation funding, and local governance structures in Ohio.  From 2005 to 2009, Goebel periodically lived in Mansfield, Ohio where she conducted long-term qualitative research on social relationships in a small city setting.  

Goebel is a graduate of Leadership Ohio and was elected by her class for the 2014 "Leader Among Leaders" award.  She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and received her B.A. from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). 

Rachel has served as the Community Relations Manager of Vectren, now a CenterPoint Energy Company, since 2014. In this role, she is the company’s community liaison in Ohio and Indiana, working with nonprofits, community organizations, and local and state officials to craft and implement community engagement strategies, and guide Vectren Foundation grantmaking. In 2018, the foundation provided nearly $5 million to over 400 organizations across Ohio and Indiana, and more than 1,500 Vectren employees volunteered over 53,500 hours of the their time to local nonprofits. Rachel has served on numerous boards and committees across the region.

Rachel is a Leadership Dayton graduate and was named one of Dayton’s Forty Under 40 in 2016. She holds a bachelor's in English from Texas A&M University and a master's in Communications from Ellis University. She has resided in Dayton since 2012 with her husband, Ross, and two children.

David Greco is a nationally recognized speaker, author and consultant on creating a more sustainable and effective social sector.  He brings more than 25 years of experience in in driving the growth and impact of social sector organizations.  In 2013, David founded Social Sector Partners to provide training and capacity building support to funders and nonprofits to develop a culture of sustainability that incorporates real cost, sustainable business models, and a focus on impact.

He is a professor with Pepperdine University in the Master in Arts in Social Entrepreneurship and Change program and the author of "Think Money! Ending the Culture of Scarcity and Achieving Real Impact”. 

Katie Harmon, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, has served as the nurse practitioner for the Aiken School-Based Health Center with the City of Cincinnati in since 2014. Previously, she specialized in telemetry at Kettering Medical Center Network and Mercy Health. In 2018, Katie completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at the University of Alabama. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Kettering College and a Master’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati. Katie has served as a preceptor for students in advanced-level programs on a continuous basis.

Katie has been integral in the success of several community-based health projects. Together with the American Public Health Association (APHA), she participated in a plan to improve graduation rates by integrating public health prevention and primary care in schools and helped to create an ongoing partnership with the APHA, among other projects.

Katie is married with two children, enjoys hockey, swimming, vacations, hiking, biking and playing with her kids.

Scott Hassell is the director of environmental sustainability at Fifth Third Bank.  He leads efforts to integrate environmental sustainability into the company’s culture, strategy, risk management, and beyond. He also leads the bank’s effort to purchase 100% solar power using a virtual power purchase agreement. The resulting solar project is currently under construction and expected to come online in 2019. Scott is a member of the Green Umbrella board of trustees and a past chair of the Greater Cincinnati Green Business Council. Previously Scott worked at the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

Scott holds an M.B.A. from Yale University, M.S. degrees in Technology & Policy and Civil & Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College.

As VP of Operations, Jake Hodesh oversees People’s Liberty team, space and the Haile Fellowship program, while building relationships with creative and entrepreneurial community partners. In his past life, Jake tackled everything from managing property contracts in New Orleans to working as a policy analyst with the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, D.C. 

Kate Ingersoll is the Program Director of the Brush Foundation, a private foundation committed to advancing reproductive health, rights and justice in Ohio. She has worked as a non-profit professional for two decades at organizations such as The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio, Adoption Network Cleveland, and as an AmeriCorps volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cleveland. She graduated from The College of Wooster with a degree in Political Science and is a member of the Cleveland Bridge Builders Class of 2019.

Living and leading by example, Jennifer A. Ingram made a career out of her greatest passion- encouraging others to walk their path, live their truth, and thrive authentically while creating and promoting a unified vision for more inclusive communities. In June 2018 Jennifer moved to Cincinnati, OH where she serves as Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC).

Prior to joining the team at UWGC, Jennifer served as Program Director in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN; which was recently ranked the number one healthcare organization in the world. She is a passionate leader with an energetic presence possessing over a decade of progressive healthcare experience.

Jennifer has demonstrated success in bringing together leadership and key stakeholders to advance strategies around diversity, equity and inclusion. Throughout her career, Jennifer has been the recipient of several awards and accolades. Most recently she was recognized by DiversityMBA, a national leadership organization integrating diversity and inclusion with talent management, as a 2018 Top 100 Under 50 Emerging Executive Leader. A native of Metro-Detroit, Jennifer earned a graduate degree from Central Michigan University in Organizational Leadership and completed undergraduate coursework at Eastern Michigan University in Healthcare Administration and minored in Healthcare Informatics. She is a strong proponent of volunteerism and mentoring at risk youth.

Jennifer is an avid world traveler who has visited six continents and enjoys experiencing different cultures and authentic cuisine.

Tara Johnson-Noem serves as Director of Government Relations for United Way of Greater Cincinnati, focusing on public policy advocacy on issues impacting United Way’s mission. In this role, she serves as United Way’s primary contact point with elected and appointed officials in Ohio and Kentucky. She also trains and engages United Way volunteers in advocacy through local committees and official meetings. Tara has led a number of community and economic development projects and initiatives over the past decade for Northern Kentucky Area Development District, Northern Kentucky Tri-ED, Vision 2015 and most recently before joining United Way in 2016, The Catalytic Fund and Skyward. Tara serves on the Behringer-Crawford Museum Board of Trustees and is also an active volunteer with Cub Scout Pack 367. Tara received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Spanish from Centre College and her Masters of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati, focusing on economic development. She lives in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky with her husband and three children.

Stephen JohnsonGrove is the Strategy Director for the Ohio Transformation Fund (OTF). In that role, he helps cultivate the field of criminal-justice-reform advocates across the state through convenings, trainings, and support to grantees of the fund and others. Before OTF, he was an attorney and deputy director with the Ohio Justice & Policy Center (OJPC) for 14 years. His advocacy work culminated in being part of the Ohio statewide Issue 1 campaign leadership in 2018. He has helped create Fair Hiring policies for public-sector employment in 13 cities and counties, and then all of Ohio state government. He helped draft and lead the advocacy effort for several pieces of legislation that removed legal barriers for job seekers with criminal records. For several years, he ran OJPC’s Cincinnati-based outreach legal clinics serving people with criminal records. Stephen is still a practicing lawyer and lives in Cincinnati with his family.

Robert works on growing the Foundation’s donor base. He leads GCF’s impact investing work and guides The Thomas J. Emery Memorial. Prior to joining GCF, Robert worked at Procter & Gamble for 24 years.

Hali Lee is the Co-Director of the Donors of Color Network, the only national project that is researching, engaging and networking high net worth donors of color across race and experience. She was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in Kansas City. She graduated from Princeton University, studied Buddhism at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a Masters in Social Work from New York University. Hali has worked in many capacities, often combining a love of learning, the arts and equitable social change. Hali is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle, which raises resources for Asian American women using the arts to bring about social change in their communities. In thirteen years, the Circle has made grants of over one million dollars in support of eighty amazing projects. She is part of a co-design team thinking about what might undergird the burgeoning collective giving movement nationally. Hali lives in Brooklyn, NY along with her dear husband, three college-age children, two cats and a big dog. In her free time, Hali loves to travel, read, play tennis and keep honeybees.

Amy serves as the Health & Wellness Coordinator for Talawanda School District and has been with the District since 2006.  Her primary responsibility includes chairing the Health Coordinating Council, comprised of both Talawanda staff and community members who seek to minimize the non-academic barriers to learning through policy, practice and programming efforts.  Additionally, the Council engages Health Education staff to ensure that the health promotion and prevention initiatives align with the District adopted curriculum. Amy also serves as Project Coordinator for the Coalition for a Healthy Community - Oxford Area. The Coalition engages multiple sectors of the community with multiple strategies to address the three priority areas of Alcohol and Other Drug Use, Mental Health and Obesity Prevention.

Amy earned a BA in Psychology from Miami University and a Masters in Teaching from National-Louis University in Wheaton, Illinois. She lives in Oxford, Ohio with her husband and 2 daughters

Holley Fowler Martens serves as a trustee and administrator for The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation. A licensed independent social worker, she integrates her social work background in her role as Foundation administrator, bringing a unique perspective to the grant making process. 

Upon graduating from CWRU Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences in 2007, Holley was employed by Shaker Heights Youth Center and placed in Student Assistance at Shaker Heights Middle School. There she worked with students, families, and school staff on student academic success and school affiliation. She created partnerships with prevention providers and coalitions in NE Ohio while organizing community engagement programs and projects pertaining to student social and emotional health. She also facilitated groups focusing on social, therapeutic, leadership and violence prevention utilizing evidence – based curriculum.

Community involvement has always been a priority of Holley’s. Her undergraduate degree in psychology from DePaul University (1990) aided her in working with several youth-serving organizations, ranging from a half-way house for teens in San Diego to designing an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention program for Cleveland area middle schoolers. The resiliency witnessed, in both volunteer and work experience, in many of these adolescents invigorates Holley; and provides hope while knowing the steep incline and hurdles many of these victimized youth have to reach normal functioning adulthood.

Holley and her husband Rob have lived in the Cleveland area since 2001, and have three children, Alycia, Charlie and Claire.

An industrial designer with a love of movies, Shane Meeker went on to become the company historian and corporate storyteller for the largest consumer products company in the world, Procter & Gamble. His two great passions merged when he began to connect what worked in his favorite movies and how to tell better business stories. In fact, he often tells groups that almost every business problem can be solved with what works in Star Wars.

Shane has been sharing his content around the world for over 12 years now and does keynotes and workshops for some of the world's biggest companies and brands, including: Walt Disney, Ford, Anheuser Busch, American Express, Exxon Mobil, US Bank and Nationwide just to name a few.

Last year Shane published his first book on the subject called StoryMythos: A Movie Guide To Better Business Stories. It is available on Amazon and Kindle and was rated a #1 New Release Best Seller in Business Writing and Skills

Jill Miller is president of Bethesda Inc. – co-sponsor of TriHealth and founder of bi3, a dedicated grantmaking initiative to transform health in Greater Cincinnati.  Under Jill’s leadership, bi3 invests in new ideas with the potential to lead to breakthrough change in health practices – focusing on maternal/infant health, behavioral health, and end of life care, as well as health innovations.  Earlier in her career, Jill founded the Joey Votto Foundation for a MLB player, where she led seed funding to establish the UC Stress Center for families dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. Jill has also served as development director at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati, and held roles in the financial and insurance industries.

Jill serves on Miami University’s Economics Advisory Board, Camp Joy’s Board of Trustees, The Health Collaborative’s Accountable Health Communities Advisory Board, Cradle Cincinnati Advisory Board, and Bethesda Foundation Board of Trustees.  She is a 2016 YWCA Rising Star, a member of Leadership Cincinnati Class 39 and the Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2016 Forty Under 40 class. Jill holds a Business Economics degree from Miami University and MBA from Xavier University.  

Christine Baker Mitton, Ph.D. is Director, Knowledge and Learning at the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland. She is responsible for the design and implementation of a knowledge and evaluation system that informs grantmaking and measures outcomes and impact across all the foundation’s portfolios. Prior to joining the foundation, she worked with nonprofit organizations and public school districts as an independent program evaluation and data management consultant. She has over 20 years of program management and non-profit experience at museums and arts organizations in Cleveland and Chicago. Christine holds a B.A. in Art History from Northwestern University and an M.A in Art History and Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned a Ph.D. in Urban Education specializing in Policy Studies from Cleveland State University, where she taught undergraduate courses in Multicultural Education and Social Foundations of Education.

Ryan Mooney-Bullock is the Executive Director of Green Umbrella, a non-profit focused on improving the sustainability of the Greater Cincinnati Region through cross-sector collaboration. She has spent the last 25 years working in science and environmental education and environmental policy. She developed and managed the Green Learning Station at the Civic Garden Center during its formative years. Her BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Chicago focused her on environmental policy and the human-environmental interaction, and her MS in Environmental Science from Antioch University New England deepened her understanding of natural systems and how to educate about them. A seasoned program manager, educator and communicator, Ryan is most energized when she is helping people make connections between their passions and what is going on in the natural and human worlds around them. She has a lifelong commitment to environmental sustainability and Cincinnati’s green hillsides, waterways and vibrant community.

Christine Mulvin, MTSC, is the Senior Program Officer at The HealthPath Foundation of Ohio. She assists nonprofits through grantseeker training, grant proposal application development and review, and problem solving during the grant period and beyond. She is the lead staff member for Community Connections, HealthPath’s small grant initiative that develops and supports nonprofit organizations and their community engagement strategies. She organizes the volunteer grant proposal review process for Community Connections and engages partners in helping to develop and shape HealthPath’s work.  She earned a Master of Technical and Scientific Communication from Miami University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and English from Aquinas College.

Adrienne R. Mundorf is the senior program director for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, where she provides leadership and oversight for all aspects of the Foundation’s Grantmaking work. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2016, Adrienne worked at Tulane University, where she served in a dual role as senior program manager of the Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences Department and as policy and advocacy manager at the Tulane Prevention Research Center. Adrienne is currently a trustee of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio and of the Church of the Saviour Foundation, a co-chair of the Philanthropy Ohio Health Initiative Steering Committee, and serves on the Church of the Saviour Metro Ministries Council. In 2019, Adrienne received the Women of Professional Excellence award from the YWCA of Greater Cleveland. Adrienne holds a Master of Public Health from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Kalamazoo College. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Malawi 2002-2005) during which she developed a passion for social and environmental justice. She lives in University Heights with her husband and two young daughters.

William Muse is president of the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI), a nonprofit nonpartisan network that, in partnership with the Kettering Foundation, publishes issue guides on major problems facing the nation and works with groups to conduct deliberative forums around the country. NIFI is based in Dayton, Ohio.

During his career in higher education, Muse served as chief executive officer of three major universities over a period of approximately 20 years. He was first selected as president of the University of Akron in 1984 and served in that post until 1992, seeing the university's enrollment expand to over 30,000 students. He also held many leadership posts in Akron, including chairman of the Akron Regional Development Board and director of National City Bank.

Muse is a native of Mississippi and received his undergraduate education at Northwestern State University in Louisiana, earning a bachelor's degree in accounting. He then attended graduate school at the University of Arkansas, receiving an MBA and a Ph.D. degree in business and administration. Muse and his wife, Marlene, have three children and four grandchildren. Muse resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Michael Osborne is Chairman of the Board of Credit Adjustments, Inc. (CAI), headquartered in Defiance, OH. After joining the CAI team as president in 1996, Michael Osborne guided the company to double-digit growth in revenue and placements year after year. Mr. Osborne is one of the founding members of CAI and held prior management positions at General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin. A visionary with decades of experience, Mr. Osborne is passionate about improving our communities and transforming lives, and measures success by the EROI (Eternal Return on Investment). He holds a BSBA with an emphasis in quantitative sciences from National University in San Diego.

Johnmark Oudersluys is passionate about creating large-scale platforms for people to positively impact communities. Leadership opportunities with volunteer organizations such as Give Back Cincinnati and New Orleans Rebuilding influenced his life. In 2010, Johnmark left corporate consulting to join CityLink as the sole staff of an organization chartered with creating a holistic path and hope for the one-third of Cincinnati's population living in poverty.

Johnmark hails from Michigan where he attended Hope College and later pursued an M.B.A. from Florida Atlantic and a Masters of International Development from Thunderbird. Johnmark, his wife, two sons, and new daughter call Cincinnati home, and attend Crossroads Church.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulos has served as the Chief of Staff in Council Member David Mann’s office since October 2016. She is passionate about helping community groups navigate City Hall to effect policy changes that lift up their neighborhoods. She serves as Membership Secretary on her neighborhood’s community council board, and she loves getting to know her neighbors as they work together to discuss, plan, argue, build, work, and celebrate their community. Prior to this, she worked at the U.S. Department of State for seven years, where she managed the Human Rights and Congressional Affairs portfolio for the Middle East Bureau. She is a Cincinnati native, and returned in 2016 after living and working in Annapolis, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Brussels. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Northern Kentucky University.

Whitney Parnell is a millennial activist, singer and the Founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps, a nonprofit that empowers individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship. Her movement work involves equipping effective allies through truth-telling, bridgebuilding, empathy, and action. She grew up between Latin America and West Africa as a Foreign Service child. At Washington University in St. Louis, Whitney doubled majored in English and Spanish, and minored in Communications and Journalism, during which she also embraced her calling as an activist. Whitney’s passion for service and social justice brought her to Washington, DC after college to serve with City Year, and then work in homeless services, before founding Service Never Sleeps in 2015. Whitney is also a musician, and is releasing a social justice album called "What Will You Do," with the goal of using empathy through song to ignite action.

Sunny Reelhorn Parr serves as the leader of both The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation and The Kroger Co. Foundation. In her role, she directs the corporate philanthropic strategy and grantmaking across the Kroger family of companies. She also oversees the $10 million Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Innovation Fund – the first philanthropic commitment to seek and provide grant funding to innovative startups, solutions and technologies focused on ending food waste through prevention, recovery and recycling. Her tireless passion shows in her leadership and commitment to help advance Kroger’s Zero Hunger | Zero Waste moonshot goal to end hunger in Kroger communities and eliminate waste across the company by 2025.

Sunny attended The Ohio State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Operations and Supply Chain, magna cum laude. She also earned a Master of Public Administration from Upper Iowa University in Homeland Security, summa cum laude. Most recently, Sunny completed the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Sunny serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Ballet and Adopt a Class Foundation. She lives in Northern Kentucky with her husband and son, and they enjoy traveling together.

Lynsey serves as Content and Digital Engagement Manager on the Communications and Marketing team at The Columbus Foundation. As a brand steward, her role spans to each function of the Foundation’s digital presence— including social media, photography, web content, e-marketing, creative support for campaigns and events, and a coordinator for the overall digital media strategy. 

Lynsey continuously finds opportunities to amplify the Foundation’s work while upholding brand quality and adding a spin of creativity. She’s a problem solver who balances a multitude of projects—always looking for the most strategic and efficient way to move forward. Through a mix of analytical and creative thinking, she merges her passions of philanthropy and marketing to engage others in causes for good. 

Lynsey holds a bachelor’s degree in strategic communication from The Ohio State University, and a minor in nonprofit studies. She is an inaugural member of the Young Alumni Academy at Ohio State, serves as a mentor for Public  Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) at Ohio State, and is a member and volunteer with the American Marketing Association, Columbus Chapter.

To reach Lynsey, email lharris@columbusfoundation.org.

For more than 25 years, Hallie Preskill has provided evaluation, organizational learning, and training workshops and services for health care, nonprofit, education, foundation, government and corporate organizations. Hallie leads FSG’s Strategic Learning and Evaluation approach and a team of experienced consultants who provide evaluation expertise over a wide range of topic areas, including health care, economic development, youth and education, human services, media and journalism, and human rights.

Prior to joining FSG, Hallie spent more than 20 years in academia, teaching graduate level courses in program evaluation, training design and development, organizational learning, appreciative inquiry and consulting. Her research has focused on evaluation capacity building, transfer of learning/training, evaluation use, and evaluation as a catalyst for individual, team and organizational learning.

She received the American Evaluation Association's Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Outstanding Professional Practice in 2002 and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. Hallie holds a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tony joined the Foundation in January 2015 as a Program Officer. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and African-American Studies from Oberlin College, and a Juris Doctorate’s degree from The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law. Tony has professional experience in law, government, and education.

Mary Burke Rivers is the Executive Director of Over-the-Rhine Community Housing. She has served in that position for over 20 years. OTR Community Housing (OTRCH) develops housing and community in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. OTRCH has developed over 600 units of housing and manages 400 units. OTRCH has won numerous awards over the years for its development work. Mary serves on the boards of the Coalition on Housing and Homelessness in Ohio, The Finance Fund, Affordable Housing Advocates  and the CDC Association of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and was appointed by former Govenor Strickland to serve on the Ohio Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee. In 2007 Mary was named one of six “Women of OTR”.

Senior Consultant, Nationwide

Susan graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BSEE in 1984, and she attended the University of Cincinnati completing her MBA in 1986. She worked in high tech industries for 20 years in the areas of research and development, product management, marketing, and strategic planning. Susan was a founder of MindPeace as a volunteer of the Junior League of Cincinnati (JLC) and under Susan’s leadership, MindPeace earned numerous awards and national recognition including the Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI) first ever Award for Collaboration and Ohio’s Best Small Non-­‐Profit to the JLC for MindPeace. She changed careers and became the Executive Director of MindPeace when it became a non-­‐profit organization.

Susan has been a Board Member of the Council on Child Abuse (COCA), the Junior League of Cincinnati, NAMI of Hamilton County and the Walnut Hills High School Association, and she co-­‐ chaired BRAVO!, the volunteer arm of Cincinnati Ballet. She was the President of the Junior League of Cincinnati and of the Walnut Hills High School Association. Susan has been honored with personal awards including the Community Friend of Mental Health Award by the Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, the Community Activist Award by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Community Outreach Finalist for Health Care Heroes, the Jake Ober Award by the Cincinnati Mood Disorders Consortium, and the Award in Excellence for Leadership in a Community Setting by NAMI of Hamilton County.

Jotika Shetty is a planner and the Executive Director of the Richland County Regional Planning Commission. The Commission seeks to guide the growth within the region along a sustainable and resilient path with a focus on multi-modal transportation and smart land-use policies. She seeks to collaborate and engage around the common purpose of enhancing quality of life for the people who choose Richland County as home.

Kate Smith, CFRM, CNEL
Vice President

Kate is driven to help her clients achieve more than they thought possible by working collaboratively to create unique, thoughtful strategies while providing consistent guidance and accountability. She is an experienced strategist and detail-oriented manager with a diverse background in strategic fundraising, nonprofit capacity building and board governance. Before joining Aly Sterling Philanthropy as a vice president, Kate served as the chief business development officer in Ohio for the law firm Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP. Prior to that she was a senior advisor at ASP, leading successful client engagements on all service lines. She has also served as associate director of The Center for Nonprofit Resources and special events manager for the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Toledo, Ohio. Kate holds a Certificate in Fund Raising Management (CFRM) and Certificate in Nonprofit Executive Leadership (CNEL) from the Fund Raising School at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Kate earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Bowling Green State University and is a 2009 graduate of Leadership Toledo.

Jesse Stock is Program Director at the Athens County Foundation. His primary role is overseeing grant management and a facilitating Leadership Athens County, a nine-month leadership course. Prior to his current role, he held positions with the Athens County Board of Development Disabilities, the American Red Cross, COSI – the Center for Science and Industry, and St. Vincent Family Centers.

Enthusiastic about the nonprofit sector and mission-driven community work, he enjoys connecting with community members and assisting them as they take action toward positive community impact. 

Jesse is a retired member of the U.S. Army Reserves, through which he spent two years in Afghanistan, earning two Bronze Stars and serving proudly with Operation Outreach Afghanistan. He is also a volunteer with Special Olympics Ohio, and Team Heart & Sole, and President of the Athens Civitan club.  Jesse is a board member with the Friends of Strouds, and Mideast Ohio Regional Council.    

An Athens native, Jesse moved back to his hometown in 2012, along with his wife, Robin, and his two children, Alia (16) and London (12). He is a family man first and foremost, but also an avid outdoorsman and athlete. He is passionate about soccer, trail running, and both cycling and swimming.

Before joining the company in 2016, Hayley spent over 20 years in healthcare finance, most recently as the VP, Revenue Cycle for a large health system. Deciding that she wanted to focus on community work, Hayley joined CAI to oversee our charitable activities and works on partnerships with outside entities to address social issues in the communities we serve. Hayley also oversees special projects for the company. A CPA and Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Hayley holds a BSBA with majors in Accounting and Healthcare Administration from Bowling Green State University.

As program director, Megan Trischler oversees the PL residency program while keeping a keen eye on all PL design and storytelling. Megan’s past work includes the development of PieLab—a pie shop, job-training center and cultural hub in Greensboro, Ala.,—and the design and development of CoSign, an initiative that paired small business owners with local artists and professional sign fabricators to install storefront signage in Cincinnati.

After working in management consulting, Peter moved to Northeast Ohio initially to work in community and economic development. Peter then leveraged his experience in that sector to launch The Opportunity Exchange, an online marketplace for impact-focused Opportunity Zone investing. The Opportunity Exchange helps connect the three key Opportunity Zone actors: project sponsors, investors, and community & economic developers. The platform also helps communities implement a data and impact tracking process by leveraging the US Impact Investing Alliance’s OZ Framework, among other resources.

After beginning her career at Aiken in 1991, Lisa Votaw was assigned to Walnut Hills High School, for the next four years, where she was the Assistant Principal. A promotion into the Principal position took her to the Winton Woods School district for 3 years and then in 2013, she was promoted once again, returning to Aiken as our Principal.

Ms. Votaw is a Cincinnati native and earned her Bachelor's degree in English Education at the College of Mt. St. Joseph and her masters degree in educational leadership at Xavier University, although her greatest accomplishments are her two sons. She is extremely proud to be a part of the Aiken and College Hill communities and has bright aspirations for what is to come. The best is yet to be!

For many years Maurice Wagoner has been, and continues to be, the voice of Over-the-Rhine residents and businesses. He is the president of the Over-the-Rhine Community Council, works for OTR Community Housing and sits on the Board of Directors for the Corporation for Findlay Market. He works and lives in the community and is a neighborhood ambassador through his full-time job, his volunteer roles and as a resident. He's a doer, someone who rolls up his sleeves and get things done.

In recognition of his leadership championing for OTR to be an environment that enables people of different backgrounds to succeed, and diverse, mission-advancing perspectives to be heard, he was awarded the 2018 Ezzard Charles Award from the OTR Chamber of Commerce.

Margy Waller is a Senior Fellow at Topos Partnership (a national strategic communications organization), founder and Serendipity Director of Art on the Streets, and was a leader in the transformation of ArtsWave, an arts advocacy and support non-profit. She has served as advisor on national initiatives to Americans for the Arts, LISC, ArtPlace, Kresge Foundation, PolicyLink, and others. Previously she was Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, with a joint appointment in the Economic Studies and Metropolitan Policy programs. Prior to Brookings, she was Senior Advisor on domestic policy in the Clinton-Gore White House. In 2010, Margy was named one of the nation’s 25 most “powerful and influential”; nonprofit arts leaders and she comments on arts, community, and strategic communications on twitter: @margyartgrrl and her ArtsJournal blog, The Bright Ride. Waller is a graduate of Northwestern University and The Ohio State University College of Law.

Allie Watson is the Senior Community Investment Officer at Richland County Foundation. Allie helps donors fulfill their charitable wishes through grant making. She discovers and discusses community opportunities, projects and programs with donors and grant recipients. Raised within the same boundaries of this plan on First Street, she enjoys being part of the improvement process in Downtown Mansfield.

Emily Gresham Wherle oversees all of Interact for Health’s internal and external communications activities. She works closely with staff members and key stakeholders to implement communications strategies, including media relations, social media, brand management and sponsorships.

Before coming to Interact for Health, Emily was the public information administrator for the Northern Kentucky Health Department.

Emily holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism.

Francie Wolgin is responsible for school-based health center grant making and technical assistance, designing and implementing creative new initiatives to improve children's health. Francie also serves as executive director of Growing Well, an organization that provides oversight, planning and support for 35 school-based health centers in Southwest Ohio.

Before coming to Interact, Francie served as system leader for education and employee development at Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was responsible for operations support, patient education, and the training and development of all employees. She held adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Michigan and Duke University. The University of Cincinnati's College of Nursing, where Francie earned her master's degree, recognized her for Outstanding Career Achievement in 2015 and named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1999. She is a Vice President of UC's College of Nursing Alumni Advisory Board. In 2012, she was named one of the 100 Minds-Thought Leaders in Greater Cincinnati by Loth, a seller of workplace solutions.

Francie serves on the board of the Children's Oral Health Network and leads the School Based Health Alliance’s Ohio affiliate. She also serves on the Interact for Change Scholarship Committee and the UnitedHealthcare Advisory Board.

Judy Wright serves as the founding Director of the Ohio Transformation Fund. Judy’s career has spanned the fields of community organizing, education, and philanthropy, always with a focus on advancing social justice. Judy’s work as a community organizer in Chicago and Ohio focused on issue campaigns including education, immigrant rights, and health access. As a project director at Ohio’s Planned Parenthood affiliate, Judy led the design and implementation of initiatives to address barriers to care for the LGBTQ and immigrant communities. Judy graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S., cum laude, in Education and Social Policy and earned a Masters of Education at Cleveland State University with a focus on popular education and transformational learning.

Charles currently serves as Interim Vice President of Strategy.  He has been with United Way of Greater Cincinnati, in various roles, for 21 years. 

In his current position, Charles has responsibilities including driving business strategy and operations, alignment of cross functional processes, managing I.T. & analytical supports, as well as workstream linkages to United Way Worldwide.

Charles spent his first 20 years working in Community Impact, last position as the Senior Director, where he was responsible for Outcome/Evaluation Systems, Program Investment and Monitoring, and supporting integration of Community Impact results with Marketing and Resource Development. Charles has received the staff excellence award and served on several taskforces for United Way Worldwide – including Standards of System Excellence.

Charles has other roles in the community. He currently serves on the Board of the Southwest Ohio Workforce Investment Board. He was an adjunct professor at Cincinnati State and is currently an adjunct professor at University of Cincinnati teaching Evaluation, Macro Communities and Social Welfare Policy.

He attended college at Wright State University for his undergraduate degree and University of Cincinnati for his graduate degree. In 2009, he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati. Charles has ten plus years in direct service, which includes work as a child abuse investigator for Hamilton and Greene Counties, foster care case management, youth development leadership, and drug/alcohol prevention.

Jennifer Zimmerman is the Director of Grants and Evaluation for bi3, the grantmaking initiative of Bethesda Inc. She partners with grantees to plan, implement and evaluate innovative approaches to improving health and health care in Greater Cincinnati.  Previously, Ms. Zimmerman was the principle of JCZ Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm offering evaluation, program development and strategic planning services to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. In this role, she served as the evaluation consultant for Interact for Health’s Thriving Communities initiative, a community-driven approach to improving health. She has served as the director of a multi-agency collaboration, director of evaluation for a large child-serving nonprofit and evaluation staff in a healthcare foundation. Ms. Zimmerman has a Master’s degree in Social Work with a focus in social and economic development.